Something I kind of wonder about this whole "every single modern TV is a smart TV that spies on you more comprehensively than the ones portrayed in “1984"” situation is this: there must surely be some overlap between “facilities that have well-protected state secrets” and the use case for TVs. Like, do they not have any TVs in, say, the pentagon, or CIA facilities, or other country’s equivalents to those things? They might not need like entertainment generally, but displaying video information to a group of people seems like it’d be useful to organizations like that. There’s also people who inherently have secrets surrounding them, like national leaders, and those people will also sometimes expect entertainment.
So, how do groups like that, who both have a lot of resources to get stuff done and an obvious reason to not want a poorly secured spy device sending information from their facilities and people to some random corporate server, deal with the modern TV situation?
Do they exclusively use old TVs? Do they modify off the shelf ones to kill the spying ability? Do they commission companies to make special models for them that aren’t commercially available, or build their own hardware? Or is the inability to buy regular, non-spying new TVs exaggerated, and theres some generic supplier out there that they can reliably get them from?
I’d imagine defense contractors don’t buy hardware that’s made for the general public and givernments only buy from defense contractors or do in house work. You can essentially “rent” a factory in parts of the world and have your own products made there, the higher the “rent” the higher level of quality control. There’s likely an entire industry dedicated to things like this.
Cathode Ray Dude on YouTube recently released a video about top-secret class computing devices. They are generally purpose built for the government. He explains in depth here if you’re interested, although it’s mainly focused on a particular computer, he does touch on display devices.
Interesting, I dont have the spare time for a video that long at the moment but I did glance at his “detour” section about modern stuff and the bit about just keeping stuff used to talk about secrets in a room rigged up as a faraday cage with a bunch of shielding seems to fit the kind of use I was picturing being a problem in my head.
Something I kind of wonder about this whole "every single modern TV is a smart TV that spies on you more comprehensively than the ones portrayed in “1984"” situation is this: there must surely be some overlap between “facilities that have well-protected state secrets” and the use case for TVs. Like, do they not have any TVs in, say, the pentagon, or CIA facilities, or other country’s equivalents to those things? They might not need like entertainment generally, but displaying video information to a group of people seems like it’d be useful to organizations like that. There’s also people who inherently have secrets surrounding them, like national leaders, and those people will also sometimes expect entertainment.
So, how do groups like that, who both have a lot of resources to get stuff done and an obvious reason to not want a poorly secured spy device sending information from their facilities and people to some random corporate server, deal with the modern TV situation? Do they exclusively use old TVs? Do they modify off the shelf ones to kill the spying ability? Do they commission companies to make special models for them that aren’t commercially available, or build their own hardware? Or is the inability to buy regular, non-spying new TVs exaggerated, and theres some generic supplier out there that they can reliably get them from?
I’d imagine defense contractors don’t buy hardware that’s made for the general public and givernments only buy from defense contractors or do in house work. You can essentially “rent” a factory in parts of the world and have your own products made there, the higher the “rent” the higher level of quality control. There’s likely an entire industry dedicated to things like this.
Eh, that’s industrial displays, and so long as it doesn’t brick the thing, you can take any radio equipment out of a tv before you use it
Cathode Ray Dude on YouTube recently released a video about top-secret class computing devices. They are generally purpose built for the government. He explains in depth here if you’re interested, although it’s mainly focused on a particular computer, he does touch on display devices.
Interesting, I dont have the spare time for a video that long at the moment but I did glance at his “detour” section about modern stuff and the bit about just keeping stuff used to talk about secrets in a room rigged up as a faraday cage with a bunch of shielding seems to fit the kind of use I was picturing being a problem in my head.
They have air-gapped rooms with lead shielding so it doesn’t really matter if a Spy-TV is in there if it can never connect to anything.